Sunday, June 28th, 2009

7 Free Awesome Raw Vegan Recipes – Must Make!

by Kristen in Blood Red Hemp Sunset, cheezy hemp nacho sauce, easy raw vegan food, harvest soup, holiday chia pudding, King Garlic Hemp Dressing, pecan spice delight cookies, pesto

Here are a handful of my favorite blog recipes. Enjoy! (And, yes, I’m still in NY)

Tuscan Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto (click here, scroll down to Aug 23 post)

This stuff is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I love showing it off at parties. People are always asking for the recipe.

Kristen Suzanne’s Harvest Soup

I get email after email from people telling me how much they love this simple soup. My husband’s and my favorite way is to prepare it with the pumpkin pie spice. Yum!

Holiday Chia Pudding

I always make a double batch of this heavenly scrumptious pudding and it’s devoured in a couple of days. I love it. My husband loves it. My step-dad loves it. My mom loves it. Need I say more?

Pecan Spice Delight Cookies

Ummm…. I don’t really have anything to say but… MAKE THESE!

Cheezy Hemp Nacho Sauce

My regular followers know I’m addicted to this sauce. I love dipping carrots and celery into it. I love dipping organic blue corn chips into it. I love dipping flax crackers into it. I love using it as a sauce on cooked or raw veggie burgers. I simply LOVE it! *Note: my favorite chili powder for this recipe is by Simply Organic.

King Garlic Hemp Dressing

This recipe is EASY PEASY! It’s extra delicious and is packed with uber healthy ingredients. Worried about garlic breath? No problem. Just make sure you serve some of this to people you’re going to be around. ;)

Summer Strawberry Cobbler

Refreshing, delicious, healthy, and awesome. And… it’s summer!

Tuscan Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto (Video, Raw Vegan Recipe)

by Kristen in ebooks, pesto, raw food, raw recipes, sun-dried tomatoes, vegan

Here’s a fantastic recipe from my book, Kristen Suzanne’s EASY Raw Sides & Snacks, available on my website by clicking here. This great recipe is so easy and takes very little time to prepare, like most of my recipes. I like to call my recipes “No Excuse Recipes” because they’re so delicious, nutritious, easy and quick to make that you really have no excuse not to make them and, therefore, always have fabulous Raw food on hand whenever you’re hungry.

Tuscan Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
Yield 4 servings

1 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked 2 hours in enough water just to cover, reserve soak water
1/2 cup fresh basil, packed
1/4 cup pine nuts (or pili nuts, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, walnuts, etc… you can pretty much use any you want)
1 teaspoon garlic, pressed
1 teaspoon Himalayan crystal salt
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

In a food processor, fitted with the “S” blade, combine all of the ingredients except the olive oil, adding a little of the sun-dried tomato “soak” water, if necessary. While the mixture is pureeing, add the olive oil. Enjoy!

Serving suggestion:

~ Dip zucchini slices into this delicious pesto for a fast and easy treat
~ Stuff 1/2 of a seeded tomato or bell pepper (yellow or orange are especially beautiful) with 1/4 cup of pesto, topped with fresh sprouts
~ Serve on top of zucchini angel hair pasta or kelp noodles for an awesome meal